As an alternative we’ll accept someone holding him accountable for an illegal action.

I’m just guessing here, but it’s probably for battery management and wireless charging, which are tricky problems you’re not gonna solve with a 555. I generally trust EEs to not put MCUs where they aren’t needed, so this must have been the cheapest/easiest option.

The incredibly silly true answer is that the software industry’s love for “deploy early, deploy often” has led to all embedded devices shipping with over-the-air (OTA) update support even when it barely makes sense. The earliest units of a given product run will ship with a minimally viable product build that has lots of bugs, but solid OTA.

Fun anecdote: I had a TV backlight die after about 3 years, and the root cause was a shitty embedded app that incorrectly regulated the voltage for the LED strips.

I mean, just last year Disney learned the hard way that acquiescing to Trump’s whim invites volatility when they suspended Jimmy Kimmel in June. Subscribers fled in droves, they had to bring him back on… It was a shit show they’re unlikely to want to repeat.

The easy solution is to make no publicly visible moves and wait patiently.

Very true, but investors are sensitive to changes in the wind. Trump is looking very weak these days, and any company who allows themselves to be cowed by his parlor tricks will lose investor confidence.

Isn’t it weird how when billionaires make more money “a rising tide raises all boats”, but when the poorest make more money, suddenly there’s extreme resource scarcity?

I just love that there are multiple people in Trump’s administration who are credibly accused of “drinking and misconduct” so you need to actually read their names and titles to know which one got canned on any given day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_in_absentia

France has absolutely no qualms about trying and sentencing someone who doesn’t bother showing up for legal proceedings.

The most likely outcome here is a limp dick fine and a lot of hot air about justice etc.

Yeah, I’m with you on that (like, if it were a fake attempt, wouldn’t you want the shooter to not be a Republican?), but there are enough weird things around the shooting that it should give anyone pause.

The big one that I haven’t seen a compelling answer for is how someone managed to get on a roof within comfortable plinking distance of a former president running for reelection and then fire multiple shots before getting dusted. “Incompetence” is the only answer we’ve been given, so I’m not surprised that conspiracy theorists are flocking to this.

I don’t have it handy, but I recommend reading Anthropic’s report about mythos and security. They state that in the long run, models which can iteratively build an attack against a perceived vulnerability will be a major win for defenders, but in the short term, they present an advantage to attackers since they basically expose oodles of new zero days.

What an incredibly sad thing to admit.

I’d nearly forgotten how he sent JD “Mercy stroke” Vance to resolve the situation.

No true leftist would post this

It’s the sort of move that might look like a clever reversal, but ultimately has a very steep price tag.

A blockade is an act of war, and this one is clearly pointed at the rest of the world, not Iran. It’s predicated on the same faulty assumption that Trump’s administration made when invading Iran: our military is unanswerable, and they will take it lying down.

Escalation paths from this are all bad-- what if an EU ship ignores challenges from a US Navy vessel, or China sends a military escort with a shipping fleet? Are we really about to start another shooting war, or will we stand there with our dicks in our hands as they sail by?

I’m thinking this brilliant idea is abandoned in a week.

Gosh, I wonder what Iran thinks about that idea? The article has this to say:

Any “joint venture” was not part of Iran’s 10-point peace plan that the U.S. agreed to and the president previously called “workable.”

And that’s it! Guess this one is still in the “concept of a plan” phase.

“The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,” she said, adding that “numerous fake images and statements about Epstein and me have been calculating [sic] on social media for years now”.

So this isn’t about empowering the victims of Epstein’s criminal enterprise to find justice, it’s about punishing them for inconveniencing her?

That’s utterly ghoulish. Jesus Christ, Melania.

Space exploration is weight lifting for science.

TIL that objects re-entering the atmosphere vary considerably in their initial velocities, and that ones from further out (e.g. lunar visits) tend to be much faster than those from LEO. It’s not intuitively surprising, but I’d assumed that given the “narrow window” used for re-entry, all objects needed to dump enough velocity to arrive in a fairly tight band.

Yeah, I had a good laugh at this. Half of the commits I review are coauthored by Claude, a fact that I’m sure Anthropic is thrilled to claim, but this colossal fuck up was obviously the work of a rogue intern or something.

It’s the missing GitHub status page.